nervous tick

well both my kids and i guess myself have noticed in the last year or so a little twitch my kids have been teased and i thin itk is when they are nervous i can feel my self  twitch are shake once in awhile and proabably notice more often now that it was pointed out and i saw the kids whaen i watch them they are 14 and 15 is there anything to do?

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

I suppose one of your kids has the tics (?). Tics are known to be increased by anxiety provoking situations.

In Tourettes' syndrome, you can get multiple types of tics. This is a definition for Tourette's syndrome from Wikipedia.org -

"Tourette syndrome.....is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane. Tourette's is defined as part of a spectrum of tic disorders, which includes transient and chronic tics."

You can read the full article and find out the symptoms which may match in your kid's case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome

There are certain medicines available for the condition.

Regards